Now here’s a great idea! Using Google maps to identify the location of news stories about snow leopards in China. Juan Li, a young Ph.D. student  has created this Google map of snow leopards reported during the 20 year period of 1990-2009 by searching the Google News Archive. She says”  I am a Ph.D candidate of conservation biology, in Center for Nature and Society, Peking university. And my supervisor is Lu Zhi. I did this map,...

Alxa league (red) in Inner Mongolia (orange) and China. Mongolians arrested for smuggling snow leopard skins. Map from Wikipedia. Good to see Chinese authorities clamping down on the illegal snow leopard parts trade. A news story this week reports Chinese police arrested two Mongolian citizens after finding two snow leopard skins and a snow leopard skull hidden inside their jeep at a border checkpoint, state media said Tuesday.Police in...

2010-06-01 11:51 PM KATHMANDU: A delegation comprising Ministry of Forests and SoilConservation (MoFSC) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials isleaving for Beijing tomorrow to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China on biodiversity issues. The MoU will be signed this week in the Chinese capital Beijing.  Dr Siddhartha Bajracharya, National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC)executive officer, said the signing of MoU...

By James Lamont and Amy Kazmin in New Delhi India wants to agree on a pact with China to protect its fast dwindling tiger population from extinction, as part of an attempt to capitalise on the goodwill created between the neighbours in their alliance during recent climate change talks. Closer co-operation between the two countries is seen by some tiger conservationists as key to preserving India’s few remaining big cats. A...